Ice famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
-- A. S. Byatt -
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
-- Adam McKay -
I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.
-- Aileen Wuornos -
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.
-- Al Gore -
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
-- Al Gore -
You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.
-- Alain Vigneault -
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
-- Alec Wilkinson -
Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense
-- Alejandro Perez -
Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.
-- Alexander Elder -
A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.
-- Alexei Yagudin -
It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.
-- Alpana Singh -
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
-- Alton Brown -
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
-- Amy Lowell -
Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.
-- Andrea Gibson -
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
-- Andrew Greeley -
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this
-- Ang Lee -
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.
-- Angela Ruggiero -
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
-- Anita Shreve -
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No, not at all— It rang out, like the first waterfall, It crunched like the crust of bluish ice And it prayed with a swanlike voice, And it broke down right before our eyes.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
-- Anna Held -
I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light imprisoned in bright mineral caves; hot, heavy dreams; ice-age dreams; dreams like machines in the head.
-- Anna Kavan -
The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.
-- Anne Bosworth Greene -
Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were better things in the woods. He believed in palaces of ice and hearts to match. Hazel had, too. Hazel had believed in woodsmen and magic shoes and swanskins and the easy magic of a compass. She had believed that because someone needing saving they were savable. She had believed in these things, but not anymore. And this is why she had to rescue Jack, even though he might not hear what she had to tell him.
-- Anne Ursu -
I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.
-- Anton Yelchin -
Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will be known, my ice floes will be seen, the secret of adulterating my poisons will have been learned, the games of my soul will be revealed.
-- Antonin Artaud -
I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.
-- Apolo Ohno -
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.
-- Apolo Ohno -
On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.
-- Apolo Ohno -
I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.
-- Apolo Ohno -
I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.
-- Apolo Ohno -
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
-- Asger Jorn -
The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
-- Ashley Wagner -
I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.
-- Aung San -
I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
-- Bernie Mac -
I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman -
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
-- Bill Kurtis -
A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.
-- Bill McKibben -
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
-- Bill Mollison -
I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.
-- Bob Corker -
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
-- Bobby Bragan -
I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.
-- Bobby Orr -
I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
-- Bobby Orr -
I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.
-- Bobby Orr -
I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
-- Bobby Orr -
Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.
-- Boman Irani -
I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.
-- Bryan Cranston -
Change his mind. Tell him you're sorry you grilled his shorts." That you're sorry you've got ice running through your veins .
-- C.C. Hunter -
The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
-- Camille Paglia -
I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
-- Carl Hagelin -
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.
-- Carol Ann Duffy -
But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!
-- Chris Pratt -
Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
-- Chris Wedge -
What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.
-- Chris Wedge -
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
-- Christina Perri -
I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
-- Clara Hughes -
I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.
-- Clara Hughes -
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
-- Clara Schumann -
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.
-- Conn Smythe -
I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy
-- Cory Monteith -
The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world- class expert-in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery,
-- Daniel Levitin -
It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.
-- Dannii Minogue -
It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.
-- Danny DeVito -
An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.
-- David Foreman -
If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
-- David Knopfler -
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.
-- Dean Koontz -
Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
-- Dean Koontz -
I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.
-- Deanna Raybourn -
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
-- Debi Thomas -
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
-- Debi Thomas -
Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?
-- Diana Butler Bass -
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
-- Diane Ackerman -
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
-- Diane Arbus -
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.
-- Diane Setterfield -
Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.
-- Don Aitkin -
I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father.
-- Don Cheadle -
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
-- Don Young -
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
-- Don Young -
This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice.
-- Donald Trump -
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!
-- Dorothy Hamill -
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
-- Doug Larson -
Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
-- Douglas Coupland -
I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
-- Dr. Dre -
He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.
-- Dr. Seuss -
We'll fight 'em until hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice.
-- Dutch Meyer -
The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.
-- Eartha Kitt -
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
-- Edmund Spenser
